LANGHORNE — Forget magazine drives and candy sales. A cash-strapped high school near Philadelphia hopes to raise funds by auctioning itself on eBay.

Officials at The Learning Center in Langhorne are seeking bids starting around $600,000 to offset steep budget cuts.

The eBay listing describes the public alternative school for at-risk teens as “pre-owned” and “slightly used.”

The winner won't own the school. But he or she will get a naming opportunity, free large pizza and the satisfaction of “delivering an education to a group of kids who could really use it.”

Principal JoAnn Holland says she hopes the eBay idea will draw the attention of a wealthy benefactor. Bidding ends Wednesday.

HARRISBURG — A bill designed to keep the financially troubled state capital out of federal bankruptcy court for five more months has the approval of the state Senate and House of Representatives.The extension barring Harrisburg from filing for bankruptcy was approved as part of a wider state budget-related measure. It goes to Gov. Tom Corbett, who is expected to approve it. The original ban was enacted a year ago, and helped stop an effort by Harrisburg's divided City Council to win bankruptcy protection last fall.The ban would expire Nov. 30.Corbett's court-approved appointee who now oversees Harrisburg has said he opposes an extension because the power to seek bankruptcy protection would give him a stronger hand in seeking concessions from creditors.

HARRISBURG — Three people are suing over a plan to wait until 2014 to hold elections for state lawmakers based on recently redrawn House and Senate districts.The lawsuit, filed Friday, asks a federal judge in Philadelphia to order the state to hold in 2013 special elections that would force lawmakers elected in November to serve shortened one-year terms.The lawsuit seeks to affect the terms of all 203 House members, who normally serve two-year terms, and the 25 senators in odd-numbered districts who are up for election this year to four-year terms.The plaintiffs, Joe Garcia, Fernando Quiles and Dalia Rivera Matias, say the population variation in legislative districts drawn in 2001 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and dilutes Latino voting power.

CORAOPOLIS — Pittsburgh-area Republican state Sen. John Pippy has resigned the seat he has held for nine years.Pippy is from Moon Township and earlier this year announced he would not run for re-election.Pippy says he waited to resign until after he could vote for the new state budget on Saturday night.He served seven years in the state House before he was elected to the Senate.Pippy says he’s leaving to take a job in the private sector, but he won’t announce what that is until July 9.His district included parts of Allegheny and Washington counties south and west of Pittsburgh.